Term staff campaign grows

Annette Rawstrone
Wednesday, August 29, 2001

More term-time school support workers are lobbying their employers for holiday pay, strengthened by the recent victory of their counterparts in Northern Ireland. Up to 100 term-time workers in Kirklees, West Yorkshire, including education teaching assistants, behaviour support workers, welfare assistants and school secretaries, are campaigning to receive the same conditions as teachers and other support staff. The term-time workers are not paid during school holidays and although they used to be able to draw Jobseeker's Allowance during that time, the Government withdrew their entitlement in 1999.